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New Delhi: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K Advani blasted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for not having an "incorruptible team" and claimed that people were aspiring for a change.
In an explicit shift from the core issue of inflation, Advani chose corruption to attack the Singh-led United Progressive Alliance government, and termed corruption as "a major obstacle in the path of inclusive growth", the mantra of the present dispensation.
"The people are looking for change, for a better alternative, I can say with full confidence that the BJP-led NDA [National Democratic Alliance] will emerge as the real alternative," Advani said at the annual session here of the Confederation of Indian Industry.
Though Advani began with Singh's call for "political consensus and help from the industry to fight inflation", he underlined the need to spell out measures to bring the prices of essential commodities down.
"For people want to see results on the ground. After all, sound management of the economy is a core responsibility of the central government," Advani said only to switch focus to corruption.
It is an issue that has been giving nightmares to the government ever since Shipping, Road Transport and Highways Minister T.R. Baalu admitted in the Rajya Sabha on April 23 to have sought the intervention of the prime minister's office to help out firms run by his family members.
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